Category: landscape

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The Facts of Life, Pádraig Ó Tuama

That you were born

and you will die.

That you will sometimes love enough

and sometimes not.

That you will lie

if only to yourself.

That you will get tired.

That you will learn most from the situations

you did not choose.

That there will be some things that move you

more than you can say.

That you will live

that you must be loved.

That you will avoid questions most urgently in need of

your attention.

That you began as the fusion of a sperm and an egg

of two people who once were strangers

and may well still be.

That life isn’t fair.

That life is sometimes good

and sometimes even better than good.

That life is often not so good.

That life is real

and if you can survive it, well,

survive it well

with love

and art

and meaning given

where meaning’s scarce.

That you will learn to live with regret.

That you will learn to live with respect.

That the structures that constrict you

may not be permanently constricting.

That you will probably be okay.

That you must accept change

before you die

but you will die anyway.

So you might as well live

and you might as well love.

You might as well love.

You might as well love.

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This poem appeared in Sorry For Your Troubles by Pádraig Ó Tuama, published by Canterbury Press Norwich, 2013.

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“Sandrine Bergès on philosophy‘s rigid and also porous spheres for public life and the home, via readings of Aristotle, Hierocles, and Musonius Rufus. (aeon)

Hierocles the Stoic is famous among ancient philosophers for his account of Stoic oikeiôsis – moral development – as a progression through concentric circles starting from the desire for self-preservation to cosmopolitanism. Stoic moral development consists in first making oneself ‘at home’ in one’s body, then we reach out to those in the circles closest to us: parents and siblings, then to those farther from us – our other relatives and neighbours, our countrymen and women – and finally to the whole world. The concentric circles are important because they offer a clear and vivid explanation of what the Stoics mean when they declare that they owe moral allegiance to the entire world.

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Scotland 1 – Haiti 0

New York Knicks, 2026 NBA Champions.

la première introduction en Bourse techno-fasciste de l’histoire

Le succès de l’introduction en Bourse de l’entreprise spatiale est celui d’un capitalisme irrationnel, destructeur et violent.

(Mediapart)

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Fearing madness in all things huge
and their requiring.

We Manage Most When We Manage Small, Linda Gregg

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In his address (30 January 1981), [CLR] James located Walter’s assassination within the context of the Seizure of Power. (Verso)

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[…]

Before the dawning
          Of my life;
I was the river
Forever winding
To purple dreaming,
I was the glowing
Of youthful Springtime,
I was the singing
Of golden songbirds,—

[…]

I was the vision
Of youthful striving,
I was the summer,
I was the autumn,
I was the All-time—
      I was love.

Revery, Fenton Johnson

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“The quality of the gift depends on the sincerity of the giver.” (Ann Patchett)

Dramatic sky.

Various arrangements–floral, lush, precise, found, precarious, disputed, adjustable, stable,

Abundance.

SFMOMA.

“To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!”

Dream Variations, Langston Hughes (Dawoud Bey)

Braque

Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawings

Agnes Martin

Lois Mailou Jones

Georgia O’Keefe, Black Place I, 1944

Takako Yamaguchi

Nairy Baghramian

Francis Firth, The statues on the plain, Thebes, 1858

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Sunny. Clear.

Steep incline.

Survival

Survival pending

                               liberation

                               revolution

or begin again

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“Can it be politics without foregrounding dissonance?”

“All sexual experiment in this film has transformative—animating, nauseating, life-threatening—consequences for the participants, whose drama is to want it all: but the task of le mariage pop is to invent an ordinariness for it. In another register we might call that politics.”

via Berlant reading of Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972.

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Soft Occupation at Sobremesa. A show organized by Juan Pablo Garza.

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Reflections of Buhaina, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers,  6:47.

Free flight, Ernie Henry, 5:47.

This kind of concern with managing the inevitable disturbance of intimacy, codependency, or the passions …”

“a scene of a disturbance that smudges the differences among care, pleasure, control focus, and harm tests how we imagine being in the world together.” LB

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Fog.

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Open Call to artists of Haitian descent: Collaborate with the ALAN LOMAX audio archive of Haiti in the 1930s. Due : June 15, 2026. (Haitian Cultural Exchange)

Specific Cultural Projects Deadline : July 10, 2026 (Florida Division of Arts & Culture Grants)

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A glimpse through an interstice caught,

Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,

Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,

A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,

There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.

A Glimpse, Walt Whitman